Man Freed After 13 Years In Jail For A Murder He Didn’t Commit

Today, Lamar Johnson who spent 13 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit was finally released because the city state’s attorney’s office says it’s vacating the conviction. Johnson was convicted of shooting a man several times, but his family and the investigators from the group Innocence Project say there was no physical evidence and he had no motive to commit the crime.

7. Ida Bell Wells-Barnett

8. Sojourner Truth

9. Serena Williams

10. Rosa Parks

11. Shirley Chisholm

#WeWillPersist: 10 Black Women Who Deserve Their Own Monuments

Bump these Confederate statues celebrating slavery, white supremacy and “American history”! We have our own sheroes!
And with recent news that folks are sending around a petition that Missy Elliott deserves her own Monument in Charlottesville, we’ve been thinking what other African-American women deserve to have their legacies immortalized in stone in the South.
From Missy to Former First Lady Michelle Obama to Congresswoman Maxine Waters, here are 10 Black women who we need to have statues in their name NOW!